A review of Hao Ren, Eli Friedman and Zhongjin Li (editors), China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance (Haymarket, 2016),£15.99 China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance is an exciting and illuminating book focused on the labour struggles waged by… Continue Reading
A review of Joel Busher, The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest: Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League (Routledge, 2015), £95 In The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest Joel Busher attempts to understand the growth of the fascist English Defence League (EDL)… Continue Reading
A review of John Riddell (editor and translator), To the Masses: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the Communist International, 1921 (Brill/Haymarket, 2016), £39.99 To the Masses is the last volume of a hugely ambitious project to make the proceedings… Continue Reading
A review of Fredric Jameson, An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army (Verso, 2016), £16.99 The idea of “utopia” has been present in Fredric Jameson’s writing more or less from the beginning. In a capitalism focused on “efficiency”… Continue Reading
A review of John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett, Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique (Brill/Haymarket, 2016), £21.99 Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further… Continue Reading
A review of Andreas Malm, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Verso, 2016), £20 One of the biggest challenges that humanity faces is how to stop global warming. It is clear that if… Continue Reading
A review of Jason W Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015), £19.99 Jason W Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life sets itself the challenge of locating an account of capitalist… Continue Reading
A review of Gilbert Achcar, Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising (Saqi, 2016), £12.99 Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese socialist living in Europe and a prominent commentator on Middle Eastern politics. His recent book Morbid Symptoms is meant to… Continue Reading
A review of Celia Hughes, Young Lives on the Left: Sixties Activism and the Liberation of the Self (Manchester University Press, 2015), £70 For those who argue that women and men make history, it makes sense to assess the 1968… Continue Reading
A review of John Smith, Imperialism in the Twenty-first Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis (Monthly Review Press, 2016), £18.99 The significance of John Smith’s book lies in his powerful critique of mainstream economics and official statistics as he… Continue Reading